the .hands ?of- the . afore- m c ntioned world. congress and our representative assembly . in Jerusalem.; Let these suggestions only -..be, -given. . practical, shape, and they will bViiig in their train a beneficent transformation in the national: life of our people, bring un told bl vssings'. PROPOSAL I. IVoi/ the last 25 years 1 have continu ously advocated the establishment of an All-Jewish Insurance Corporation, em bracing every branch covering all .-kinds of insurance engaged in: as life insurance, fire insurance, marine insurance, insur ance against- accident; sickness, out' of employment; loss of cattle (through dis ease), ?Theft, guarantee and ? department and every conceivable kind, of insurance, to spread which 'idea ; 1. have published pamphlets by. the thousand, in various languages, distributed same broadcast, 'while acting as' Delegate- at -.the.- .many - Zionist- Congresses; representing ten Polish* provinces, in these pamphlets, called the 'Last --'Word to the Jewish People?'' I-have proved -by - a .---mass of statistic, and mathematical data that if the entire -''Ho use of Israel.' were to in sure their lives in a purely Jewish insti tute, in such a corporation, . where the in sured wo ulcl be -Jews only, we would, in. accordance with' the lower rate of our mortality, -save year by year the colossal sum of £1.042.000. In the -.space - of 10 years this sum, at the rate of 4 per 'cent.? would have produced the, fabulous: sum of. £133.042,000 ! What could. Ave not have done with a reserve of such magnitude — if we had but possessed it? And Ave- could have 'possessed it by- now had my sugges tions bat been acted upon at the time. The .conclusions ? at which.;.!; had arrived ? in those pamphlets were based upon sta tistic.;!, which ' I- have gathered for many years, through correspondence : Avith managers of hospitals -in various t eoun triee, -with physicians,' professors) and sta tisticians— all of Avliich. data had gone to prove— black, upon Avhite— that the 'Jewish' rate of mortality --is.- thirty-three (?33 per cent) per iCent. loAver than, the rate among the Gentile or general popu lation !— «duo.. no doubt, to the beneficence of the dietary 'laws, the- -conjugal purity, and the other sanitary or hygienic mea sures which regulate our. home-life, and thus renders' us exceptional) but- which is a fact, and .it becomes our duty to utilize this fact for ?' the- national. benefit. Copies of all the statistical data I have gathered I handed over, personally, to the late Dr.- Her/.l .. -and his' coadjutors, .while I Avas attending congress in Basle and Haagli as a delegate. Insuring our life, as- Ave now do, toge ther with the general, popul atiom and paying for same, at the' rate 'of insurance according to . thei r mortality. Ave :jave ac- ? tuaily paying in premiums 33 per cent. more- than we should, with the, result that Ave are, to this extent, : enriching7' the com panies and impoverishing . ourselves — Avronging ourselves about £14,000,000 year by year! I-3'.a d h u t t h e Zi o n i s t lea ders gi ve n prac tical rfrect to these proposals, 25 years ago- — at' the time I started ??.-.?advocating same, we 'would have liad.%it this event ful day-; a; hatiio-nal l eserA'e of about £300

000-000, and with such a colossal sum. we could have- built up our nation and re habitaled the land in splendid style. We could have seceured immense -tracts- of land,- nationalised soil- settled on it myr iads of farmers, so as to have become centres- of production . and ' attraction. Even the town.-JeAv.ish population, could have found ample employment, in such a gigantic, undertaking, as clerks, actuaries, managers, secretaries* accountants, or agents, commissioners; collectors, doctors —in short, it would have given employ ment to innumerable hands. All these funds, which, now go to fill the pockets of the stranger, --could- have remained in our own.: devoted to the re demption. of fields; could have been -em- - ployed in. the '?founding: of agrarian banks'- ? in Palestine, in order to revive the coun try. ' ; One need only pay sufficient attention to t he way all the Insurance Companies are managed: the magnificent salaries their officials receive, the millions ol! money paid away yearly in commissions and agencies, to form a concept iou oli what a national iiisurance of the kind suggested Avould mean! I have explained my proposition in all detail, to Drs. Herzl and Tsheilnow, jnr., Wolfsonr Prof. Mandelstam. Drs. Nor dau and Rupin, Prof. Warburg (Berlin), Prof. Schneirer (Wien), Advocate Bel lc'oAvsky, Rosenbaum, llautke. Brandeis* Bodenheimcr, Dr. Weitzman, Sokolow, Ausiskim and to the various Zionist or ganisations in seA'oral countries* all of . Avhoiii/ expressed approval, eAren ..promised, to help to bring same into speedy opera lion. To prove the veracity of my last statement,' let me here reproduce some documentary evidence. . Advocate Schwifr here quotes freely from letters received by him from Dr. Herzl, Dr. Max Nordau, Dr. Z. D. Levon

sliiu. Head Manager of Jewish Colonial .Bank* London, and also gives references to his' scheme by various Jewish news papers. .-??-. (To be Continued).

A number of Arabs from Hebron have petitioned. t.l\e Director of the Education . Department of the Zionist Commission to permit (heir children to attend the Hebrew School, of Hebron. They ex press the wish that their children should knoAv the three 'official languages, and trust that one -of the JeAvish teachers of Hebron, rimy be the instructor. They .express- .-their . gratitude to the Zionist Commission, in expectation of ---the--- -grant- ing of this request. In consequence of the immigration of pogrom refugees into.- Berlin, a shelter, Avith 'accommodation for adults and child ren, was opened ! v the 'Verband der Ostjuden' in conjunction Avith the Ju disch-N a lion al c Frau en ver eini gu n g.

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"THE URGENCY FOR THE CREATION OF A NATIONAL INSURANCE CORPORATION." The Hebrew Standard of Australasia (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1953) 18 November 1921: 4. Web. 27 Sep 2017 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127416597>.